Birdsall agrees to be bought by Calif. firm

No deal with earlier suitor

8:00 PM,
May 4, 2013

The Eatontown office of Birdsall Services Group.

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Birdsall Services Group, the embattled engineering firm embroiled in a pay-for-play scandal, has signed a letter of intent to be purchased by a California-based firm for $5.6 million, the company's trustee said in court papers Friday.

The deal with Partner Assessment Corp., which operates as Partner Engineering and Science Inc. and has offices on Broad Street in Red Bank and in Ramsey, comes after Birdsall scrapped another proposal from Bowman Consulting, an engineering firm based in Chantilly, Va.

Trustee Edwin I. Stier would not discuss the reasons behind the switch. ...